865 – “A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.”

–General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr, USA

Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of France, which opened up the Western Front of the European Theater in World War II, leading to the downfall of Hitler and the NAZIs.

500 – “Being honest is beautiful, but terrible too. Yet still, be honest, raw and vulnerable, heed the words. Choose to live with death like pain instead of living with masks over and over again.”

–anonymous

196 – “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

–Frederick Buechner